Manager of Occupational Health, Safety and Wellness

ABOUT US

The City of Spruce Grove is a fast growing, dynamic city committed to building and maintaining a fiscally responsible community that serves our residents, attracts visitors, and promotes future growth.

The “Values, We Live By” are accountability, communication, leadership, integrity, and respect while we work towards maintaining a work/play balance.

We are an organization that cares, an organization that is committed to our city and committed to you. The City of Spruce Grove is committed to public service, where everyone feels empowered to contribute their best work. We believe that by working together in a spirit of collaboration and respect, we can achieve great things.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Reporting to the Director of Human Resources, the Manager of Occupational Health, Safety and Wellness, is responsible for the development, implementation and the evaluation of the organizational Wellness, Health and Safety Plan and Occupational Health and Safety Program. The overall intent being the health and safety and wellness of our employees. This includes promoting the health and safety initiatives in the organization through staff engagement and building strong working relationships with department Directors and program Managers.

This position will provide educational opportunities for managers, supervisors and staff with regards to their OHS accountabilities and responsibilities to ensure competencies and familiarity with all elements of the Safety Program. The position will also be responsible for leading and guiding the OHS Advisor. Other responsibilities include working closely with colleagues, internal committees and working groups to ensure OHS obligations are met.

This position will develop employee training, ensuring that all applicable compliance requirements are met. This role will also develop strategic performance metrics and targets that are consistent with organizational goals.

This is a full-time, permanent position. The salary range is: $102,083.80 - $121,357.60.

RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Health and Safety Program Delivery
- Responsible for the overall delivery of Occupational, Health and Safety and Wellness program at the City.
- Accountable to ensure the overall proactive and reactive inspection programs reach compliance.
- Lead and maintain regular Certificate of Recognition (COR) Audit practices and procedures.
- Accountable to ensure development, implementation and evaluation of performance measures, compliance monitoring activities and quality assurance standards are met.
- Support the Strategic Development, evaluation and enhancement of business operations and systems support to ensure effective health and safety compliance inspections and investigations.
- Communicate and provide briefings regarding information on potentially volatile or contentious issues, upward, laterally and to appropriate committees.
- Through effective communication and leadership, coach and support the Occupational Health and Safety Advisor.
- Facilitate productive discussions and mediate challenging or conflict laden issues with clients, officers and other internal/ external partners.

2. Leadership and Committee Development
- Plan, direct and review ongoing operational strategy for fulfilling the operational business plan.
- Delegate specific components of business plan to the OHS Advisor and OHS committee members and provide direction, coaching and collaborative perspective to implementation strategies.
- Using personal leadership competencies and communication techniques ensure goals and objectives are clearly and actively communicated throughout the team.
- Provide coaching, encouragement, constructive feedback and leadership support.
- Ensure opportunity for OHS Advisor to develop and hone their competencies.
- Determine areas of improvement for employees, providing additional training.
- Develop training programs that are based on regulatory requirements and best practices.
- Oversee the Health and Safety orientation/onboarding of new hires and the training of all employees.

3. Planning and Reporting
- Provide strategic operational direction into the establishment of priorities, goals and program initiatives.
- Accountable to set operational direction and manage ongoing aspects of operations and planning.
- Use balanced judgement to determine adjustments to strategic direction and shifts in focus of field activity to meet external demands.
- Monitors ongoing progress and evaluates the OHS plan outcomes to ensure objectives are being met.
- Develop strategic performance metrics and targets that are consistent with company goals
- Identify emerging trends and areas of improvement.

4. Internal/External Relationship Development
- Cultivate positive productive relationships geared to increase internal responsibility for health and safety management
- Collaborate with safety associations, unions, worker and management to further the health and safety system.
- Promote the importance of developing and end